title: A NIDSEC primer: Part 1--Setting the standards.
abstract: The Nursing Information and Data Set Evalution Center, established by the American Nurses Association, recently published the criteria by which it evaluates information systems that support nursing practice documentation. This article focuses on two of the four dimensions of nursing data sets and the systems that contain them: nomenclature and clinical content.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D009732:Nursing Care; D009737:Nursing Records; D015399:Nursing Research; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled